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The founding members of the European Economic Community (EEC), the precursor of the European Community (EC) and today’s European Union (EU), had high expectations for a common transport policy when they signed the Treaty of Rome on 12 March 1957. In a common market based on the freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital, what could be more natural than a common transport policy?
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European Commission (1992) White Paper: COM (92) 494, The Future Development of the Common Transport Policy: A global approach to the contribution of a Community framework for sustainable mobility.
Abbati, C. degli (1987) Transport and European Integration (Luxembourg: OOPEC).
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© 1998 Stephen Glaister, June Burnham, Handley Stevens and Tony Travers
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Travers, T. (1998). Making Transport Policy in the European Union. In: Transport Policy in Britain. Public Policy and Politics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27002-6_4
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